Jim Shaw: The Wig Museum Screenprint Often modest in scale

Often modest in scale

Wesselmann incorporated everyday objects and advertising ephemera into his representations of the nude

represents a skeletal male figure brandishing a sword in its right hand

and women’s self-fashioning

on a series of ceramic sculptures

Jim Shaw: The Wig Museum Screenprint Often modest in scaleThis book was published on the occasion of Jim Shaw: The Wig Museum, the inaugural exhibition at the Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles. The site specific exhibition presented paintings, drawings, and sculptural installations by Shaw that incorporate artifacts including wigs, regalia, and hand painted theatrical backdrops found during the conversion of the building, which was formerly a Scottish Rite Masonic Temple. The catalogue features